I don't know whether this is about lace bobbins or some other type of bobbins, such as weaving. I have heard that children were set to wind bobbins to help their lacemaking mothers. It's a children's action rhyme. If it is about winding lace bobbins, I have a vivid image of the tangle they'd get into if they did all those actions!
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Wind the bobbin up, wind the bobbin up, Pull, pull, clap, clap. Point to the ceiling, point to the floor, Point to the window, point to the door. Put your hands together, one, two, three, Place your hands upon your knee. |
A correspondent tells me "This sounds like the description of German bobbins in use. They have a wood outer casing. So the 2 bobbins are wound up, then their thread is half-hitched tight (pull). Then the covers are clapped on. Then each pair tied on (straight pin in pillow points up, bobbins hanging toward self/floor). Then cross and twist (window and door). Then bobbins grouped and set aside. Mom always told me 'hands on your knees' when I finished a step in learning crochet or knitting or weaving. Perhaps it is the same thing."
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